The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) just announced the first comprehensive Trusted Data Sharing Framework to facilitate trusted data sharing between organisations. 

Maximizing the advertising impact with innovative campaigns to stand out from the competition with the least possible cost is the goal of every advertiser, isn’t it? However, the measurement of the effectiveness of digital media activities, in spite of all high-tech tools in the market, still remains a key challenge - beyond the established planning and market research approaches. There are no uniform measurement models yet that allow real-time control of campaigns for the advertising impact.

High-quality visual product content is widely accepted as an increasingly critical element of an effective e-commerce merchandising strategy. Brands and retailers adapting to a “digital first” world must produce high-quality visual product content at scale to engage with their customers across many channels and platforms. The good news are, that Bright River, a global leader in end-to-end visual product content solutions for e-commerce, just announced its integration partnership with Capture Integration’s ShotFlow, offering more scalability to photo studios serving the e-commerce industry.

The leading Amazon analysis software, Egrow has announced the addition of a new SEO tool for Marketplace sellers. The new Keyword Rank Tracker tool, which has been integrated into the popular Egrow software, extends the already vast range of sales and marketing solutions offered by the all-in-one, comprehensive service for listing optimization and product promotion.

Today, companies are more worried than ever about how they can reliably secure their entire organization against cyber-attacks. Their main focus is on ensuring to put holistically secure products on the market, as well as to protect expertise stored in databases and private data of employees, suppliers and customers.

According to Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) President Martha Suárez, competitive access to spectrum resources will result in a thriving fixed and mobile marketplace that can deliver new, innovative services. During a TV White Space (TVWS) workshop in Buenos Aires, she highlighted that harnessing spectrum sharing technologies like TVWS is key to enabling rural broadband.

In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyberattacks, and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal information.

Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly (NLA) passed recently its cybersecurity bill that gives authorities the right to bypass court orders in "critical" situations, just like Singapore a year earlier. In fact, many jurisdictions in the region started to develop their own cybersecurity legislation to impose requirements on certain businesses to implement protections against cybersecurity risks into their computer systems.

Prof. Dr. Peter Gentsch, a German management consultant and serial entrepreneur specialized in digital management and data science, is dealing intensively with the topics of personalization and bots in his interesting article "Chatbots for personalized dialogues”, where he pointed out in many places that these topics aren’t actually new.

Storytelling is often sold as the latest marketing trend, but we know that storytelling is neither a trend nor a novelty. Nevertheless, many advertising agencies are still mainly design-oriented and only slowly becoming aware of the power of good stories. Thanks to digital marketing, this power can also be measured accurately and quickly, proving that communication without a story cannot compete with story communication in terms of conversion rates.

The idea of sitting down at the desk and powering up a PC to log-in to the Internet already seems a thing of the past nowadays, although Apple launched the first iPhone just 10 years ago, ushering in the age of the mobile Internet.

According to a survey of the market research firm eMarketer, global spending for online advertising will reach nearly 427 billion US dollars in 2020. But how can advertisers use their media budget effectively and to the greatest success for their campaigns?

Guardio, a new breed of cyber security product designed to tackle threats and security concerns within the browser, discovered a major flaw in Evernote’s Web Clipper Chrome extension’s code that left it vulnerable, potentially allowing threat actors to access personal information from users’ online services.

As content consumption on mobile continues to increase around the world, so has advertising spent on the medium. In fact, nearly a quarter of digital advertising budgets are allocated to mobile apps, according to a report conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of PubMatic.